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The Motor Industry Newsletter - September 2010
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Welcome to Torque, the monthly newsletter from the IMI for Motor Industry employers.
As the professional association and Sector Skills Council for the automotive retail industry we would like to keep you up to date with news, views and information from our sector.
If you have any comments, or if you know anyone who may like to receive this newsletter, please email comms@motor.org.uk.
We will not pass your details on to any other organisation.
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The Women and Work Project
The Women and Work project is now up and running through phase 4 and funding is still available!
The programme requires a minimum spend from employers of £1000 in order to access a grant of £400 per participant and offers employees an opportunity for additional support in up-skilling in either Management & Leadership or general Career Development. Many women have benefitted from the scheme over the past three years including Maxine Heaton of Zest Training. Please click here to see more about Maxine’s experience of The Women and Work Scheme!
Please click here to see more about Maxine's experience of The Women and Work Scheme
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Apprenticeship Framework Development
As part of ongoing work to develop Apprenticeship Frameworks with the Automotive sector that are Specification of Apprenticeship Standards for England (SASE) and Specification of Apprenticeship Standards for Wales (SASW) compliant, the Institute of the Motor Industry will be holding a series of consultation meetings with employers and training providers throughout October.
The consultations will be held in Northern Ireland, Wales and England.
If you would like to be involved with these consultations please contact Laura Beattie, laurab@motor.org.uk.
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SkillAuto - The countdown to registration has begun!
With just 8 days until online registration opens, automotive employers across the nation are preparing for their technicians to take the online test on 1st October.
This is your opportunity for technicians to stand out from the crowd, recognise excellence and increase confidence, skills and all-round competence.
SkillAuto gives the opportunity for your employees to showcase their skills, competing on a national level. The first stage is the online test which can be taken immediately after registration opens on 1st October.
After taking an online test, the IMI select the best to compete in the practical heats around the country. The winners of these regional heats then compete in the UK final!
There are three streams of the competition:
AutoTech – for light vehicle technicians
AutoBody Repair - for panel technicians
AutoPaint – for paint technicians
This is your opportunity to promote excellence in your workplace, and showcase the talent that your business has to offer. By encouraging and supporting your technicians to enter the competition you are proving their value, and helping to inspire confidence in their abilities. And if they get to the live heats – added publicity will promote the increased confidence and new skills that your technician has acquired.
We encourage you to enter all those that might be eligible. So, put the 1st October in your diary to log onto www.motor.org.uk
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IMI Annual Dinner 2011
We are delighted to announce that the IMI Annual Dinner will be held on Thursday 10th March 2011 at the Landmark Hotel, London.
The evening will commence with a drinks reception at 7.00 pm, followed by dinner at 7.45 pm and will feature the annual Skillmiles Recognition Awards. We will also have an entertaining after dinner speaker.
Although quite a formal occasion, the evening is a wonderful networking opportunity with a gathering of influential personalities from across the automotive industry. Individual tickets are priced at £150 ex VAT, with tables of 10 or 12 also available.
If you would like any further information, please contact Charlisse Wilson on 01992 511521 or via email charlissew@motor.org.uk
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Good News from the Employer Skills Survey
We would like to share some good news from the recent employer skills survey. The survey was conducted with 1000 employers across all nations and regions and all sub sectors of our footprint between June and August 2010.
The purpose of the research was to establish from automotive retail employers: skill needs and gaps; recruitment and training practices; the implications of the recession; and awareness of IMI.
The survey has found the following in relation to Awareness and Engagement with IMI:
• overall awareness of IMI is high at 72% of employers;
• 45% of employers who are aware of the IMI, are aware that we the are SSC. This is up significantly from 38% in 2009;
• awareness of IMI as an SSC is highest in Scotland at 52% which is a substantial increase from 2009
• employer rating of the IMI as “representative of the automotive retail sector” has remained constant at 4.4 (out of a 7 point scale).
• in relation to IMI products and services, just over half of employers surveyed reported being aware of membership at 51%, ATA at 40%, careers information and advice at 31% and AMA at 29%.
The full report will be available on the IMI website soon.
To view other research items, click here
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Gateshead College unveils new auto skills centre
Automotive industry employees in the Tyne and Wear region stand to benefit from a £400,000 new training facility that has opened at Gateshead College, close to the college's existing Skills Academy for automotive, engineering, manufacturing and logistrics.
The new centre is intended to meet the need for a single source facility where companies can send their employees to be up-skilled and gain qualifications and accreditation including the Automotive Technician Accreditation (ATA) Scheme.
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Garages incentivised to make sector better
Motor Codes has launched a national campaign to help garages improve by gathering feedback from customers. As part of the campaign, garages will be in with a chance of winning £250 of Snap-On Tools vouchers every month.
“Garages need to provide customers with confidence and reassurance to shake off misconceptions about poor standards. By gathering feedback, good and most importantly – bad, garages across the country can make improvements that will turn around the reputation of our industry,” said Chris Mason, Motor Codes director. “Every garage that subscribes to Motor Codes has free access to a government-backed survey and can use the results to become even better.”
Each month a Motor Codes garage customer will win back the cost of their service or repair up to £500 by simply completing the online survey. Results of the surveys are transformed into a live Garage Rating that is displayed on garage profile pages at www.motorcodes.co.uk. Each subscribing garage can access the results of their surveys, enabling them to identify areas of strength and weakness.
Motor Codes has the backing of Consumer Focus, Government, Trading Standards, Consumer Direct and industry. The survey was put together in line with requirements set out by the Office of Fair Trading, with the aim of helping to drive up standards across the sector. To find out more about the new customer survey incentive and to subscribe to Motor Codes, visit www.motorcodes.co.uk
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Advertise in MIM
How can you reach over 20,000 influential motor industry professionals each month?
By advertising in MIM Magazine.
See a sample edition here.
For more information contact Chris Bean at Ten Alps Publishing on 020 7878 2334.
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Torque Newsletter Archive
To see previous editions of Torque newsletters, please
click here
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